Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1881 — Don’t Do It. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Do It.

Don’t gamble. It’s a sin to bet on the wrong horse. Don’t boast of your little vices. They will advertise themselves. Don’t worship wealth. It is better to bend the knee to obtain it. Don’t let your dog sit in front of a saloon door. He may annoy the bartender. Don’t ask your milkman why the lacteal fluid is blue. He may not be a scientist Don’t spend your life in reproving the sins of your friends. Try the beam business awhile. Don’t trust your minister too far. Better keep awake and see that he preaches no false doctrine. Don’t imagine you are fitted for no profession. Everybody knows how to edit a newspaper. Don’t ask your butcher what his sausages are made of. Everybody knows that they are made of meat. Don’t trouble yourselves about your neighbor’s affairs. If he can’t attend to his own business let him hire a boy.— Catskill Recorder.

They had been engaged for a long time, and one evening were reading the paper together. “Look, love,” he exclaimed, “only sls for a suit of clothes!” “Is it a wedding suit?” she asked, looking naively at her lover. “Oh, no,” he answered; “it is a business suit” “Well. I meant business,” she replied.— New York Commercial.